Chapter 224: Old Man Huang

Long Yi squinted at Huang Sheng Hong's now vacant room. "Are you sure he just got out without hurting anyone?" he asked his own secretary. "What about the CCTV? What about his wife? I told you to make sure she cannot leave the house. Where is she now?" He immediately left the room and went out of the ground floor where Huang Xiaoxuan was waiting for him.

"Did your father arrived at their house?"

"Yes." Huang Xiaoxuan nodded before she bit her lips. "But… but… she was— " she stammered when she saw the dark look on Long Yi's face. 

"What?"

"She was long gone. The guards at her place… were all dead."

Long Yi squinted. He was about to tell Huang Xiaoxuan how this was all her fault when he remembered Lyca's words about not being able to have another child again. His eyes landed on her stomach. For some reason, Lyca's words seemed to remind him of something.

Xie Jun and Zhang Zhi already had problems in this area but… he wasn't really diagnosed rather, he didn't ask his doctors about his sperm count. It was just something that didn't make any sense at that time. However, he remembered not having any protection every time he touched Huang Xiaoxuan in the past years. 

And yet, she just got pregnant a few months back. Was it possible that— Long Yi shook the thoughts out of his head and realized that he had been off because of seeing Lyca. 

"What happened?" Patriarch Long's voice scattered all the thoughts inside Long Yi's head. He looked at his father whose unkempt clothes only made Long Yi's mood worst. The man must have been with a woman again. The lipstick on his father's neck only confirmed his suspicions. 

"They escaped." He wanted to tell him how he had been calling him for hours and how his secretary was trying to reach him. How he thought he was already dead, killed by Lyca and her people. Sadly for Long Yi, his father was still alive, enjoying another woman somewhere in this city.

"They? Huang Sheng Hong?" Patriarch Long's face instantly changed. "Do we have casualties?"

"Not in this building but the people on Tang Nini's property were all dead."

Patriarch Long clicked his tongue, anger apparent on his face. "And you said… you met Lyca?"

"Yes, father. She was the one who told me about this escape."

For a few seconds, the old man turned silent. Why would Lyca tip Long Yi of what was about to happen? His eyes slowly landed on the CCTV's surrounding this part of the lobby. "Disable all the CCTV's. Make our cybersecurity check the firewall make sure no one is watching us."

"Father?" Long Yi stood there like a statue. "CCTV?"

Realizing that his son was really not like him, the old man shook his head and gestured to follow him towards his office. The two didn't say anything as they rode the elevator towards the top floor of the building. "Order a lockdown." The old man said. "That woman might be watching us now."

Long Yi pursed his lips, eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean?"

"Why would she warn you about an escape? Does she want you to stop it? She wasn't that stupid." The old man started calling his people who are experts in the computer. He wanted to make sure that everything is good on their end. "I would assume that she was able to infiltrate our security. That is the reason why Huang Sheng Hong was able to leave undetected." His father's lips were set in a thin straight line. "Tell me everything that happened in the event." He said.

Long Yi immediately started telling the old man everything. Of course, he didn't include Lyca's words about his sperm count. After all, this might make his father abandoned him as the heir of the company.

"So, she was already his wife? Since— "Patriarch Long's question was interrupted when his secretary came inside, telling them that they already got Lyca and Shen Qui's file. "Tell us everything about them."

"Shen Qui changed his name into Q and became the humble owner of a chain of restaurants and bars all around the region. But this does not include Long City. The other three cities all have branches of the restaurant and high-end clubs. They did this with the help of Santa Rivers. There was a Rumor that Q was married but no one had seen him with a woman for the past three years. Lyca or Xi just appeared out of nowhere a couple of months ago. The rumors said that she came back from abroad but we can't prove it as there were no files of her leaving and arriving in the country. She probably used a fake name. We already started to check some of the airports CCTV for her image around the time that she appeared but it would take some time."

"And they are already married?"

"Yes, before she disappeared." The secretary promptly nodded at Long Yi. "The marriage certificate was dated three years ago."

"Can you see any connection in the Black market? Previously, I remember that Shen Qui was working under a big boss. This big boss should be Santa Rivers? How come we didn't know about this when we already know that he was in Kong City? How come we still thought he was a nobody?" Patriarch Long prided himself in being very analytical. "Santa Rivers." He answered his own question. "I want you to check the guy out. I want to know how he became like this. I want to know everything about him."

"Yes, Sir." The Secretary bowed before leaving the office.

"Father why would you— " Long Yi stopped talking when he saw his father's eyes that were glued towards him. He didn't miss the disappointment in the older man's eyes. What could this mean? "Father- I— "

"You sure you want to ask me about Santa Rivers and not think about it on your own?" Patriarch Long sighed as he turned and look at the view of the city that he could see from the floor to ceiling windows of his office. There was a reason why Long Yi was still the vice-chairman. There was a reason why Patriarch Long was still hesitant to give him his seat and the company. And that is because… he was stupid.

His lack of analytical skills was something that even he, couldn't understand. The patriarch thought that Long Yi could change this part of him. He put him in the Long Founding school of elites, hoping that he would develop some sort of scheming skills that he would need in the outside world. 

Turns out he was wrong. Long Yi didn't improve at all. In fact, the man seemed to have become more stupid now that everything had been handed towards him. Long Yi's train of thoughts had always been weird and the patriarch wasn't proud of this.

How did Long Yi become like this? His cruel nature was something that he inherited from the patriarch but how come he didn't inherit his brains? Without him, Long Yi would be truly helpless.

Did he do something wrong to have a son like this?

"Father, she might be planning something. I believe we should kill Old Man Huang and— " Long Yi made a deliberate pause when his father suddenly turned around and stared at him.

"The old man…. Is still here." Just as the realization hit him, the loud sound of an alarm rung inside the whole building. The father and son immediately looked at each other and dashed outside of the office. The two immediately went back to the underground floor where the old man was kept inside the room as they monitor his body and make sure that Lyca or not anyone from the Huang Family could easily save him. 

"Report!" Patriarch Long said the moment one of his people approached him. "Tell me everything that happened here!" He looked at the mess in front of him. The room where the Huang Patriarch stayed was now in tatters. And he was talking about some real mess. He was certain that the reason why the alarm sounded was because of the explosion that happened in this room.

"Sir, it is not safe yet. Please leave this part of the underground as our people will make sure it's safe." The man was wearing a white suit and a mask along with a few of his people. He respectfully bowed at Patriarch Long before he added. "This place might collapse because of the damages. I would advise you to use the emergency stairs to leave the place. We will call the security after we put out the fire and check for any leaks."

Patriarch Long nodded and followed their instructions. He eyed the two bodies that were on the floor covered with a white sheet. "Who are those?" He asked the person wearing a white suit.

"Two nurses who were checking the patient. They must have triggered something as they checked the patient that's why the explosion happened." The man answered before he instructed his people to put out the fire and make sure not to touch anything. This building was full of chemicals and have a lab located just above this floor, it is always best to be more careful.